Congo-Kinshasa: Funding Shortage Forces UN Agency to Reduce Food Assistance in DR Congo

3 December 2013

Serious resource constraints are forcing the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to reduce or interrupt some of its activities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) beginning this month, leaving thousands of people with no food assistance.

WFP, which is funded entirely by voluntary contributions, urgently needs $75 million to continue its operations in DRC over the next six months, it stated in a news release. One out ten children in DR Congo suffers from acute malnutrition and 6.3 million people there are facing hunger and need food assistance.

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